Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis